LA City Council approves controversial affordable housing project in heart of Venice Beach https://t.co/b0ahfihnwx
— Hillel Aron (@hillelaron) December 1, 2021
Category: Life in the Big City
The police, um, fabricated this story
I’m happy to hear that my fellow citizens aren’t quite as depersonalized as I thought! As Atrios wrote, “Cops lie all the time, journalists dutifully type it up, and no one gets in trouble and few hear the retractions.”
#BREAKING: Passengers didn't sit around and “callously” record video of a rape aboard a SEPTA train for their own gratification without contacting authorities, Delco DA says, reversing police narrative. https://t.co/rvf8pxC3Gv
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) October 21, 2021
I guess I should say something about this
Am I disgusted? Of course. Am I shocked? Not a bit. I live in a city where almost every day, children are shot and killed. Young people shot to death over things that hardly seem worth a punch. It seems like everyone in this place is just numb to other people, probably because their lives are pretty shitty themselves. So yeah, I can see where they pulled out their phones and recorded a woman being raped. She wasn’t real, it was just another story.
As a woman was raped on a public transit train in Philadelphia last week, riders held up their cellphones and pointed them in the direction of the sexual assault instead of calling 911, authorities say.https://t.co/nn5kauemsm
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2021
Have you noticed?
https://twitter.com/aroseblush/status/1442564208424538118
Kill it
If you see one of these beautiful bugs, "squish it, that’s the message," the director of horticulture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden said. https://t.co/XneKBExU7H
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2021
Matter of trust
My latest, on @AlterNet: "This disaster is political and ideological…a story about government neglect. By holding builders, inspectors, real-estate agents, bankers and condo boards to high ethical and legal standards, governments protect our lives."https://t.co/jtZMCRruYK
— Claire Potter (@TenuredRadical) July 7, 2021
Good news
Bigger than usual share of spending targeted to Philly area would fund smart-streets, traffic calming projects. Dems put down marker on that and on EVs.https://t.co/QbyHy2o8kJ
— tomfitzgerald (@tomfitzgerald) July 1, 2021
I wonder how many bad skyscrapers there are
Millions of dollars of water damage, frequent elevator malfunctions, and a trash chute “that sounds like a bomb” when garbage is tossed. Read our story from February on what residents say life is like in 432 Park on Manhattan’s Billionaire's Row. https://t.co/pNvBtzXy5b
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 28, 2021
Happy to see it
I really miss restaurants:
I’m excited for the launch of the $28.6B Restaurant Revitalization Fund as part of our American Rescue Plan. Independent restaurants have been very hard hit by this pandemic and we’ve been advocating for several months for this program. Help is here! https://t.co/6aUzMluAwA
— Mike Levin (@MikeLevin) May 5, 2021
A simple twist of fate
I want to know more about the underground flute market after reading this https://t.co/3H3MilemTK
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) April 22, 2021